Ticket-printing machine.



A. STENHUUSE .1 G. BASTHAM.

TICKET PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 24, 1908.

Patented 116111910.

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Miha/mv A. STBNHOUSE & Gr. EASITHAM.

TICKET PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLIGATloN FILED DEQ. 24, 190s.

Patented Feb.1,1910.

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FFME,

.ALEXANDER STENHOU'SE AND GEORGE EASTI-IAM,

0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO CHARLES OCONNOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TICKET-PRINTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. I, TSMC..

Application tiled December 24, 1908. Serial No. 469,076.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER STEN- HoUsE and GEORGE EAs'rI-IAM, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful I1nprovements in Ticket-Printing Machines, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

ur invention relates to a ticket printing machine and particularly those for printing tickets from a continuous strip of paper.

The object of our invention is to provide a comparatively small cylinder press that can be used in the ticket oflices of small theaters and other places of amusement, by means of which the tickets can be printed as used, counted as they are printed, and perforated so that they can be conveniently torn off and separated according as desired. This we accomplish by comparatively simple and inexpensive means including a printing cylinder and an inking roll that can be readily removed, renovated and replenished and then replaced without inconvenience, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings z-Figure l is a side elevation of our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof with the upper portion broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of so much of the same as is shown in Fig. 2, looking at it from the side opposite that shown in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the group of cylinders employed in our invention, removed from the machine, and shown in their relative posit-ions.

In the drawings A represents a suitable base upon which suitable separated parallel metal frames, B, B, are secured, that form the sides of the housing within which the respective features of our invention are inclosed. The lower portion of these sideframes B are of greater width between their forward and rear vertical edges than the upper portion of the same. These upper portions constitute standards between which a reel of paper strip X isplaced and the upper ends of the same are provided with vertical slots, which terminate in bearings for the-journals of said reel a substantially as hereinafter more fully explained. If desired' -impression roller `D is,

an inverted U-shaped yoke b may` arch over the roll of paper wound upon said reel,` the ends of which are provided with feet or blocks o on their inner sides that are adapted to lit into said slots, and hold the yoke Z2 in the upright position shown in Fig. l. The rear vertical edges of frames, B, B, extend straight upward substantially their entire height, but the forward edges of said frames below the plane of the said reel are curved forward to increase the dimensions of the housing within which the operative mechanism of our invention is housed and to form shoulders that are provided with downwardly extending vertical slots, o,` the lower portions of which lprovide bearings for the journals of the printing-cylinder. Journaled in suitable bearings in the frame B below and in the same vertical plane as the bearings of the printing-cylinder is an impression-roller D of about the same diameter, and the journals of said cylinder and roller extend through their bearings at one end and are provided with gears C and D that mesh with each other. The cylinder C is, at points diametrically opposite each other, provided with a longitudinal series of corresponding projections e, and impression roller D is provided at points diametrically opposite each other with longitudinal blades E whose outer edges are serrated, and, as said roll and cylinder revolve these serrations are adapted to enter the spaces between projections e and perforate the strip of paper passing between the same. Between these oppositely arranged series of project-ions e, e, said cylinder C has semicircular rubber plates o mounted thereon that print the desired matter upon the paper strip X and the immediately back of the perforating blades E, provided with a small block of rubber which is compressed when said paper strip is, between each impression of the plates C perforated, and expands immediately thereafter to push the paper od of the serrations of said blades.

In order to keep the cylinder pressed down upon the impression-roller, we have provided presserbars, G, Gr, that are pivoted at their rear end to the outer side of sideframes B, and extend horizontally forward over the journals of cylinder C just outside of their bearings. The upper edge of these presser-bars have a longitudinally arranged bow-shaped spring g secured thereto at one end, and these bow-shaped springs are engaged mediate their ends by polygonal heads it that are pivoted by suitable eccentric screws to the outer surfaces of the sideframes, substantially as shown. By turning these heads on their axes the pressure of springs g upon the presser-bars can be regulated, and in this way the pressure of the latter upon the cylinder can be controlled.

The journal of the impression roller D, opposite gear D, is, nearest the inner surface of the adjacent side frame, mounted on the adjacent end of the spindle of a cyclometer J, secured in any suitable manner to the outer opposite surface of the adjacent side-frame B. As the type-plates on cylinder C only occupy one half of the circumference thereof, each revolution of pinion H will cause gear 1 to move sufficiently to register each ticket-'printed in cyclometer J, which latter is of any conventional design or construction. In order to prevent the digitdisks of the cyclometer from being reversed, we have provided a suitably curved leafspring K, which is secured to the base, A, at one end, and has its opposite end bear up against the circumference of the impression roll D. Should an attempt be made to reverse the said roller, such reversal, if the roller has rotated less than one-half of a revolution, would be stopped by rubber f coming in contact with the edge of the spring K.

In order to ink the type on cylinder C we have provided a roller L the journals of which extend out through slot c in the sideframes, and the circumference of which is covered by a suitable ink-pad 7c. This inkroller is, preferably, kept bearin down upon the cylinder by means of lea -springs M, whose rear ends are secured in studs m projecting from the side-frames, and whose forward ends bear down upon the extended journals of said roller L.

We prefer to connect the forward edges of side-frames B by a plate N that extends from the base of the upper narrower portionthereof down to a point just above a horizontal plane striking between the cylinder and the impression-roll, and commencing at a point at or slightly below this horizontal plane striking between said cylinder and impression-roller, we close the space between the front edges of the side frame by a plate O, whose upper edge is flanged horizontally toward said impression-roller and Whose lower edge is flanged horizontally in the opposite direction and secured by screws or otherwise to the base.

l As the strip of paper leaves the reel a` it extends down and around an idle-roller P, which latter is journaled in the side-frame so that its lowest segment touches the horizontal plane passing between the printing cylinder and impression roller D, and from whence said strip extends horizontally forward between said cylinder and roller where it is printed upon and perforated, and then passes out of the opening left between the lower edges of plate N, and the upper edge of plate O.

Vhile we do not consider it essential, if desired the space between the lower portion of the rear edges of the side-frames can be closed by a plate Q, whose lower end is flanged outward andsecured in a suitable manner to base A, and whose upper edge is bent horizontally forward and passes under the roller P to form a delivery platform q for said strip, the longitudinal edges fr of which are flanged upward, substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

In view ofthe explanation accompanying this description of our invention, further explanation of the operation of our invention is unnecessary. Suffice it to say that the construction of the various elements of our invention, when combined and operating in the manner set forth, can be changed or modified according to the nature of the ticket or card being printed, without departing from the spirit of our invention.

That we claim as new is l. A machine of the kind specified, comprising a printing cylinder, having a longitudinally arranged series of projections, and a type-plate secured to the circumference of said cylinder on each side of said projections, and an impression roller having a longitudinally arranged series of perforating points projecting therefrom adapted to cooperate with said projections and provided with elastic cushioned means for disengaging a perforated strip from said points.

2. A machine of the kind specified, com prising a printing cylinder, having longitudinally arranged series of projections, and a type-plate secured to the circumference of said cylinder on each side of said projections, an impression roller having longitudinally arranged series of perforating points projecting therefrom adapted to cooperate with said projections and provided with elastic cushioned means for disengaging a perforated strip from said points, and a superposed inking cylinder resting on said printing cylinder.

3. A machine of the kind specified, colnprising a printing cylinder, having longitudinally arranged series of projections, and a type-plate secured to the circumference of said cylinder on each side of said projections, an impression roller having longitudinally arranged series of perforating points projecting therefrom adapted to cooperate with said projections and an expansible cushion on said roller following said perforating points that disengages a perforated strip from said points. i9,

4. A machine of the kind speciieql,eom

prising a printing cylinder, having longitudinally arranged series of projections, and a type-plate secured to the circumference of said cylinder on each side of said projections, an impression roller having a longitudinally arranged series of perforating points projecting therefrom adapted to coperate with said projections, an expansible cushion on said roller following' said perforating points that disengages a perforated strip from said points, and a superposed inking cylinder resting on said printing cylinder.

5. A machine of the kind speciiied comprising suitable side-frames having vertical bearing slots therein, an impression roller journaled in bearings in said side-frames below said slots, a printing cylinder the j ournals of which extend through said slots, an hiking-cylinder resting upon said printingcylinder whose journals also extend through said slots, presser-bars bearing down upon the journals of said printing roller, eccentrically pivoted heads for regulating the downward pressure and the upward movement of said presser-bars, and springs bearing down upon the journals of said printingroller, and springs bearing down upon the journals of the inking-cylinder.

6. A machine of the kind specified comprising suitable side-frames having vertical bearing slots therein, an impression-roller having a longitudinal series of perforating points and journaled in bearings in said sideframes below said slots and provided with means for disengaging a perforated strip, a printing-cylinder having a longitudinal series of projections coperating with said points, the journals of which extend through said slots, an inking cylinder resting upon said printing-cylinder whose journals also `extend through said slots, and means yieldingly pressing down upon the journals of said cylinders.

7. A machine of the kind specified comprising suitable side-frames having vertical bearing slots therein, an impression roller having a longitudinal series of perforating points and journaled in bearings in said sideframes below said slots, a printing cylinder having a longitudinal series of projections cooperating with said points, the journals of which extend through said slots, an inkingcylinder resting upon said printing-cylinder whose journals also extend through said slots, presser-bars bearing down upon the journals of said printing roller, and springs bearing down upon the journals of the inking-cylinder.

8. A machine of the kind specified comprising suitable side-frames having vertical bearing slots therein, an impression roller having a longitudinal series of perforating points and j ournaled in bearings in said sideframes below said slots, a printing cylinder having a longitudinal jseries of projections cooperating with said points, the journals of which extend through said slots, an inkingcylinder resting upon said printing-cylinder whose journals also extend through said slots, presser-bars bearing down upon the journals of said printing roller, eccentrically pivoted heads for regulating the downward pressure and the upward movement of said presser-bars, and springs bearing down upon the journals of said printing-roller, and springs bearing down upon the journals of the inking-cylinder.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 11th day of December, A. D., 1908.

ALEXANDER sTENEoUsE. [n s] GEORGE EASTHAM. [n s] Witnesses FRANK D. THoMAsoN, E. K. LUNDY. 

